First chapter
All men are not created equal, to Izuku Midoriya that was the harsh reality, being diagnosed as quirkless at the young age of four and instantly becoming the target for everyone that was blessed with one.
And now here he was, six years old and running from his attackers. Why was he being attacked? Easy he again put himself between another kid and his bullies successfully saving the poor kid but unsuccessfully trying to calm the bullies.
"Come back here Deku!" an ashen blonde shouted while popping small explosions from his hands
"I can see him Bakugo, he won't scape!" another kid with long fingers shouted
"Need to hide, need to hide!" Izuku's mind was running at a hundred miles per hour "Why do I keep putting myself in these situations!" He couldn't help it really, but every time he saw those kinds of situations his body just moved.
He was sure that he was going to get lost, he has never been that deep in the forest, but at the same time, he knew that if he slowed down even a little, the other kids will catch him and hurt him again. He still didn't understand why his childhood friend simply started hating him, he didn't do anything for god's sake!
He was so involved in his thoughts that he almost crashed against the side of a small mountain. His eyes widened, he could hear them getting close, he looked around and started running to his right, Izuku was sure that he won't scape another beating, his eyes were starting to water when he found a miracle.
"There is a small cave there!" An entrance to the mountain, without thinking he crouched and dove into the cave, regretting it two seconds later when he was suddenly sliding deep into the mountain. He screamed all the way down and dropped with a big OMPH!
"Note for future escaping… don't dive into caves that I don't know" Izuku said groaning while rubbing his butt. His eyes widened realizing the predicament he was into "I'm lost in a cave that goes inside of a mountain" muttered Izuku with his eyes watering
He started walking through the cave that was lighted by a makeshift torch he made "Thanks mom for those camping classes… even If they meant getting more bullied" he thought. After a few minutes, there was another thought on his mind "there should be an exit". An hour later he was crouched down on the floor openly crying now
"I want to see my mommy again, I want to go home, I want to watch more videos of All Might" tears rolled from his eyes, his small mind finally feeling the weight of his situation. In his mind everything that took him to that point was flashing, his situation being quirkless, his love for heroes, his traitorous body that moved on his own, and finally Katsuki Bakugo.
"Why does he bully me, I don't bother him, I'm just trying to be a hero" his mind thinking seriously for the first time about that situation "He… He's not my friend, for some reason he hates me, even if I just try to live my life… he targets me for no reason" he cried softly. Minutes passed quickly and the poor child finally runs out of tears.
"I just want to go home, I don't want to make mom sad… I just want to be a hero" those words steeled his resolve "I can't stay here crying if I'm going to be a hero. I have to stop crying and keep moving, there must be an exit to this place"
He started walking again renewed vigor on his steps, but when he walked for another hour that new resolve started to fade again, after all, he was just a small child. Suddenly heavens must have decided that he earned a break because out of nowhere torches started lit up on a corridor to his right.
"What?" he stuttered "Wait if there is fire here maybe someone is on the end of this corridor! Maybe I could get help… Or maybe this is a villain hideout" his initial happiness was suddenly replaced for fear. Steeling his nerves he decided to follow the corridor slowly and quiet in case he needs to turn back and run to hide in the darkness
He walked slowly through the corridor, using all his senses in case he needed to retreat and hide, but the more he walked in, the more he noticed that the corridor seemed unused for a long time, even if the torches lit up suddenly.
Finally, after a while walking he reached what seemed to be a big room that had a lot of other tunnel entrances or exits. Looking around in every tunnel trying to decide what his next step should be, his eyes widened at his discovery
"A Room!" Izuku shouted in happiness. Inside that tunnel was a literal room, in the middle was a table with chairs, around the cave were bookshelves full of old books and Scrolls, on the far end of the room was a desk with a smaller torch on one of its corners. What made Izuku really happy was that on the table in the middle of the room was a map
"A MAP YES!" getting close to the map his eyes widened, it seemed that the big room with all the entrances, was in the middle of the mountain and every tunnel had an exit in different parts of the mountain "so if I take this tunnel I'll find an exit that is around 25 minutes away from home!"
Izuku took the map and started running to the exit but something inside his head made him stop and turn to look at the books and scrolls on the shelves
"I… I just want to know what this place is. A little investigation won't hurt anyone" and that he did, he looked through the scrolls on the desk for a while when something caught his attention "Ninjas?"
If he understood right apparently he was on a hidden military base for ninjas, and this base belonged to a Village called Konoha, the leaf hidden village on the land of fire. He kept reading through what seemed war records, apparently ninja nations were having a large-scale war against each other.
"A war between ninjas" Izuku said with stars on his eyes. He kept looking through documents not understanding a lot of things but a name kept popping out in almost every scroll he read "Namikaze Minato, all these scrolls are directed to him, maybe he was a general or something" his eyes moved from the desk to the bookshelves, he knew he would be in trouble if he doesn't go home right now but something in his gut told him to check for more information.
He stood in front of a bookshelf reading the titles of the books, when one caught his eye it reads "Book to understand chakra better and perform better ninjutsu volume #1 of 14" He chuckled at the large and weird name, opening the book his eyes widened again "Written by Namikaze Minato" he whispered, he found a handwritten book made by a man who was really important in the war
Izuku started reading the book and felt something he hasn't felt in a long time, hope. It seemed that this chakra the book was talking about was something every human had! And if one is capable to manifest it and mold it, it could be used to perform amazing techniques. He read for a while his already fast and analytic mind was in overdrive trying to understand everything he read.
It seemed that chakra was made by two energies physical energy and spiritual energy being molded together, and it circulates through the body using the chakra pathway system, the more Izuku read the more his hopes started to go through the roof.
"If I'm able to control this energy, chakra, maybe I could use it to become a hero!" he was about to sit down on the floor when something fell out of his pocket, the map.
"Oh my god I need to get out of here mom is going to be really mad!, I can come back later with this map" he got up and after three seconds of thinking took the first and second book of the Books to understand chakra better and perform better ninjutsu Series and made his way home, using the map to guide himself out of the mountain was really easy, he lit up his torch again and started fast walking to the exit closer to his house.
He reached the end of the tunnel after an hour of walking and started to panic again, it was a dead-end!
"Okay, do not panic Izuku think… these guys were ninjas, of course, there must be a secret button or something to open the door!"
He used his torch to look around getting close to the door when he felt his foot press something on the floor and suddenly a big rock moved aside "Of course a hidden button on the floor!" when he walked outside the mountain his panic raised again
"Oh god is night already! Mom is going to be so mad" he couldn't help but whimper and was about to start running to his house when he looked back and saw the entrance to the cave wide open "I need to close the door again… I… I don't want anyone knowing about my secret"
He felt guilty keeping this kind of information secret but maybe this was his only shot to be a hero, so he started looking around for a way to close the entrance after a few minutes he found a small button no bigger than a small pebble with a weird symbol that looked like a leaf on the floor under a root of big three, he pressed the button and the entrance closed again. Smiling to himself he took off to his house already planning what to say to his mom and how to start training this energy called chakra
And that was his first step to becoming the Hero known as the symbol of hope. The green Flash.
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